Worst African dictator

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

What I find rather funny about Valentine Strasser is not only was he only 25 when he took power, but after being ousted he went into exile in England, and then later returned...to his mother's house. He's unemployed and living with his mother now. A former head of a military junta is now an unemployed bum living under his parent's roof, that's fairly humorous.

[WMS]

What I find rather funny about Valentine Strasser is not only was he only 25 when he took power, but after being ousted he went into exile in England, and then later returned...to his mother's house. He's unemployed and living with his mother now. A former head of a military junta is now an unemployed bum living under his parent's roof, that's fairly humorous.

I didn't know that...interesting. Africa sure comes up with some odd situations...
Like Guinea-Bissau, where things improve every time the military overthrows the last elected president (that's because the elected presidents have a bad habit of turning into wannabe tyrants):
Guinea-Bissau Political Rights/Civil Liberties
2004 4* 4   PF
2003 6* 4* PF
2002 4   5    PF
2001 4   5    PF
2000 4   5    PF
1999 3   5    PF
1998 3   5    PF
1997 3   4    PF
1996 3   4    PF
1995 3   4    PF
1994 3   4    PF
1973 Independence; One-Party Rule (PAIGC), President Luis Cabral, 1974-1980; 
Joao Bernardo Vieira was prime minister, but Vieira toppled Cabral
in 1980. President Joaj Bernardo Vieira, 1980-1991.
1991 Constitutional Reform; end of one-party rule
1991-1999 Corrupt Republic; President Joao Bernardo Vieira, somewhat fair 1994 election
1998 Army Mutiny after Vieira sacked General Ansumane Mane, accusing him of smuggling arms to rebels in the southern Casamance region of neighboring Senegal. Vieria's butt saved by military intervention of Senegal and Guinea (encouraged by France). Troops eventually leave and
1999 Military Coup, General Ansumane Mane, transition
1999-2000 another somewhat fair election, but "the populist Kumba Yala of the PRS won a January 2000 second round runoff over Malam Bacai Sanha of the PAIGC. However, fighting broke out in 2000 between military supporters of Yala and those of Mane after Mane declared himself the head of the armed forces; Mane was subsequently killed"
2000-2002 Republic, President Kumba Yala
2002 National Assembly dissolved; Yumba rules by decree
2002-2003 Presidential Regime, President Kumba Yala
2003 Military Coup, General Verissimo Seabra. Transitional National Council (TNC) established, return to democracy
2003-current, transitional Republic, Interim President Henrique Rosa. Parliamentary elections held 2004, Presidential scheduled March 2005.

[M]

Of all time, Pharoah of biblical Egypt (probably Ramses II) for not letting G-d's people go and allowing his people to suffer the plagues.

Seriously, the all time worst as Idi Amin followed by Mengistu (the Jews also miraculously escaped from both, hijacked plane passengers from Uganda in the Entebbe mission, Operation thunderbolt, and the Ethiopian Jews in Operation Solomon).

The current worst is Momar Qaddafi (spellings vary), who has actually recently asked ex-Libyan Jews to return. So far they're not pouring in from Italy and Israel. I wonder why.

[senatortombstone]

I want to know why South African apartheid was such a big deal all throughout the 60',s. 70's, 80's and 90's when the real killers, monsters, tyrants and dictators like Amin and such were doing their thing commiting genocide.

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Most african rulers have been dictators.

[ThePrezMex]

Given that most African rules have been dictators, and there are at least two dozens that could equally win the title for 'worst', I think it would make a more interesting and fruitful exercise to discuss the best ones.
Maybe we are going to come up with just 5 or 10 names, but could be interesting. So I'm going to create that new thread.